Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in
Turin
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– 30 July 1804 in Turin) was an Italian
physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...
and
professor of botany at the
University of Turin
The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...
. His most important work was ''Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii'' 1755, a study of the plant world in
Piedmont
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, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown. In 1766, he published the ''Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium''.
Career
In April, 1758 he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
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.
He was appointed extraordinary professor of botany at the University of Turin in 1760 and was also the director of the
Turin Botanical Garden
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. The journal ''Allionia: bollettino dell' istituto ed orto botanico dell' università di Torino'' is named after him.
[
First ]Pehr Löfling
Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Biography
Löfling was born in Tolvfors Bruk, Gävle, Sweden. He studied at the University of Uppsala where he attended courses taugh ...
and then Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
named the New World herb genus '' Allionia'' (Nyctaginaceae) after Allioni. Per Axel Rydberg
Per Axel Rydberg (July 6, 1860 – July 25, 1931) was a Swedish-born, American botanist who was the first curator of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium.
Biography
Per Axel Rydberg was born in Odh, Västergötland, Sweden and emigrated to ...
named the genus ''Allioniella'' (now a taxonomic synonym
In taxonomy, the scientific classification of living organisms, a synonym is an alternative scientific name for the accepted scientific name of a taxon. The Botanical nomenclature, botanical and Zoological nomenclature, zoological codes of nomencl ...
for '' Mirabilis''), after him.
Also named after him are:
* ''Arabis allionii
''Arabis allionii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the mountains of central and southern Europe and southern Turkey. The Royal Horticultural Society
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 ...
''
* '' Jovibarba allioni''
* '' Primula allioni''
* '' Veronica allionii''
Selected works
*''Flora Pedemontana, sive, Enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii'', Turin, 1755.
* Stirpium praecipuarum litoris et agri Nicaensis, Turin, 1755.
**
*''Auctarium ad floram Pedemontanam cum notis et emendationibus'' (1789)
*''Stirpium praecipuarum littoris et agri Nicaeensis Enumeratio methodica cum Elencho aliquot anirnalium ejusdem maris'' (1757)
References
Further reading
*Caramiello, R. & Forneris, G. (2004) ''Le opere minori di Carlo Allioni: dal «Rariorum Pedemontii stirpium» all'«Auctarium ad Floram Pedemontanam»''. Firenze: Edizioni Olschki
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1728 births
1804 deaths
People from the Kingdom of Sardinia
Physicians from Turin
18th-century Italian botanists
Italian entomologists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Academic staff of the University of Turin
Scientists from Turin
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities